Tomorrow is the official beginning of winter. Do you welcome it with a “whoopee” or a “woe is me”? (I had one northern friend describe how she had to climb through her trunk to get into her car because all her door handles were frozen last week. I have a pretty good idea how she feels.) Here’s how I welcome it—with a steaming cup of tea and a chance for you to win a book perfect for the season!
Post a comment to this blog no later than 11:59 pm EST on January 8, 2017, to tell me which of the items below could help you engage your students. From the comments, I’ll randomly select one teacher to win Pigloo, a wintry tale of exploration, patience, and bravery. (Update: congratulations to Katrina, who is the winner of our prize.)
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When the temperatures dip, gather students around for a read-aloud of a good book. With the Novel Effect app, you can add theme music and sound effects in real time as you read popular books for preschool to grade 6. The app, which is free for a limited time, uses voice-activated companion audio. Click here to see how it works.
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Would you like a share of $200,000 in products and services to support a program that engages your students? Enter the Follett Challenge by describing how your program prepares students for future success. Get the details here.
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Inspire your students to use kindness, creativity, and collaboration to generate new ideas to reduce waste in homes, schools, and communities. The grand prize in the Paradigm Challenge is $100,000 for the student and $5,000 for the educator. Click here to get the details as well as free lesson plans and supplemental resources.
Don’t forget to post a comment for your chance to win the book!
Happily sipping my tea,
Karen |
PS: Today is the last day to enter for a chance to win a stack of seasonal books for your classroom library. Click here and look under the “Win” tab.
Novel Effect looks interesting for reading in the library.
I am going to use some of the lesson plans in the Paradigm challenge.
Definitely the novel effect. I love to read to my kiddos and would love a new winter book but sometimes I would like to be read too as well
I always welcome winter in with a “whoppee!!!” I love winter – I love the seasons changing. I like wearing warm, comfy sweaters and drinking coffee, hot cocoa, and tea …
My students would LOVE Pigloo …. what a great addition to our growing classroom library! I am also excited about the Novel Effect app …. can’t wait to try it out. Happy Winter!!
The Novel Effect sounds fantastic!
Pigloo looks like a wonderful book to have in my collection. I need more winter books!
The Novel Effect app looks really cool!
The Paradigm Challenge sounds awesome.
I am excited about the app Novel Effect. I cannot wait to try it out!
I can’t wait to try the Novel Effect app! Thanks for sharing that!
Welcome winter! As a Southern gal, I usually don’t see much snow, but love it! I’d welcome any of the free resources, but think I’d love PigLoo!
My students LOVE pigs so I would prefer the PIGLOO book!
I think the novel effect will be great to use in class
Pigloo would be perfect for my students!
Pigloo is a new book to me and I’m excited to read it!! Looks like something my Pre-K students would love!
Love novel effects! Makes the stories so exciting for the children!
I would love to read Pigloo to my Pre-K class! It looks like lots of fun!
Pillow would be a great way to start the New Year with my Reading intervention kids. I look for engaging books to teach mini lessons. This could provide lots of lessons and the book would be love by k-2.
To have a new book to share with my kinders, how wonderful. Pigloo looks like a neat story and I bet they would love it. Storytime is our favorite time of the day. Unwind, listen, dream and enjoy…. We would love this gift.
Pigloo looks like a great book and would be awesome to have. Just starting out as a teacher and could use lots of books to keep adding to my collection.
Winter is whoopee time! Time for reading, puzzles and family getting together.
I’m happy w/ tea and a book but my students (k-5) are looking forward to snow, sledding and missing school. The illustrations in Pigloo look inviting and. Pigloo appears to be a friendly character. I would use this book as a starting point for a winter art activity. (I’m the school art teacher AND librarian–small school) Plus, I have a student who loves pigs–and we have very few books featuring pigs.
Parade rim Challenge peeks my interest
I work in a non profit preschool in a intergraded class room. I am always looking at ways to get things for the class room we have a low budget. The money always is spent on the basics to run the class room . we love books
The Paradigm Challenge peeked my interest. I will be gathering more information about this project. My pre-k students and I would love to have the Pigloo book.
The Pigloo book is too cute! The Paradigm Challenge looks interesting, and I will look into that more!
Novel Effect – I love the way it uses the print book. I connected a speaker for my classroom and the kids just absolutely loved it. Everyone sat still and payed attention through the entire story. They were mesmerized. Harold and the Purple Crayon was my favorite, but Polar Express and How the Grinch Stole Christmas were great for the holidays.